An unnamed professor leaves the city behind and heads to the countryside when he becomes involved in an investigation surrounding precious manuscripts at his university. It is here that he reconnects with humanity in its purest form. In what veteran filmmaker Ermanno Olmi has stated will be his last feature film, he seeks to identify ? and realize on screen ? one person that can be used as a symbol of humanity and source of hope. The religious tone and imagery of One Hundred Nails makes it clear that Christ is that person. But, as Olmi states, it is Christ the man, not the Son of God, that informs the film. “Christ of the streets, not the idol of altar and incense. Nor is it the Christ you find in books, when books and altars become a convenient orthodoxy, a hypocritical convenience or even an excuse for an abuse of power.”